St. Mark's Playhouse

St. Mark's Playhouse at 133 Second Avenue in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City, was an Off-Off-Broadway theater notable for presenting the Negro Ensemble Company's production of The First Breeze of Summer^[1]^[2] by Leslie Lee,^[3] which premiered on March 2, 1975, before transferring to Broadway on June 10, where it played through July 20, 1975.^[4] St. Mark's Playhouse also showed French playwright Jean Genet's first American performance of his play The Blacks.

The theatre was founded by Lynn Michaels and Harry Baum.^[5]

References

^ The First Breeze of Summer at the Internet Broadway Database
^ The First Breeze of Summer at IMDb
^ Leslie Lee at the Internet Broadway Database
^ St. Mark's Playhouse at the Internet Broadway Database
^ Cox, Gordon (April 24, 2007). "Lynn Michaels, 83, a.d. of Open Space Theater". Variety. Retrieved December 29, 2022.

40°43′44″N 73°59′16″W / 40.72889°N 73.98778°W / 40.72889; -73.98778

East Village and NoHo

Manhattan, New York City

Green spaces
Abe Lebewohl Park Carmen Pabón del Amanecer Jardín La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Liz Christy Garden New York Marble Cemetery New York City Marble Cemetery Open Road Park Tompkins Square Park

Education
Cooper Union 41 Cooper Square East Side Community High School Grace Church School Harvey Milk High School High School for Health Professions and Human Services Ottendorfer Library Third Street Music School Settlement

Religion
Church of the Immaculate Conception and Clergy Houses Church of the Most Holy Redeemer Church of the Nativity German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark Grace Church Middle Collegiate Church Mission of Our Lady of Loreto (Sheen Center, Barat Settlement House) San Isidoro y San Leandro Western Orthodox Catholic Church of the Hispanic Mozarabic Rite Slovenian Church of St. Cyril in New York St. Ann's Armenian Catholic Cathedral St. Ann Church St. Brigid Roman Catholic Church St. Emeric Church St. George's Church St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery St. Nicholas Kirche St. Nicholas of Myra Church St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Church Tabernacle Baptist Church

Religion

Church of the Immaculate Conception and Clergy Houses
Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
Church of the Nativity
German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark
Grace Church
Middle Collegiate Church
Mission of Our Lady of Loreto (Sheen Center, Barat Settlement House)
San Isidoro y San Leandro Western Orthodox Catholic Church of the Hispanic Mozarabic Rite
Slovenian Church of St. Cyril in New York
St. Ann's Armenian Catholic Cathedral
St. Ann Church
St. Brigid Roman Catholic Church
St. Emeric Church
St. George's Church
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
St. Nicholas Kirche
St. Nicholas of Myra Church
St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Church
Tabernacle Baptist Church

Culture

Restaurants/ nightlife	B&H Dairy Burp Castle Club Cumming Death & Co. Foul Witch Foxface Natural Joe's Pub Kanoyama KGB Lucien McSorley's Nuyorican Poets Café Please Don't Tell Pommes Frites Pyramid Club Somtum Der Superiority Burger The Cock The Talking Band Torien Tuome Veniero's Veselka Webster Hall
Theater	Astor Place Theatre Classic Stage Company Connelly Theater La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Metropolitan Playhouse Nublu Club Orpheum Theatre Performance Space New York Playwrights Horizons Theater School The Public Theater Joe's Pub Theatre 80 Theater for the New City Village East by Angelika WOW Café
Stores	Barbara Feinman Millinery Ray's Candy Store Strand Bookstore Trash and Vaudeville
Museums and galleries	Anthology Film Archives Brant Foundation Merchant's House Museum Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York
Other	4th Street Food Co-op Alamo C-Squat The Houston Bowery Wall Museum of Broken Windows
Former	8BC A7 Angel's Share Astor Opera House Cagen Charas/El Bohio Club 57 Dos Blockos Fez Five Spot Café Gem Spa Ground Zero Gallery Heartbreak Harry & Ida's Meat and Supply Co. Jewel Bako Kiev Restaurant Kim's Video and Music King Tut's Wah Wah Hut Kyo Ya Lanza's Limbo Lit Lounge Lynn Redgrave Theater New St. Marks Baths New Theatre Comique New York Vauxhall Gardens Now Gallery Old Reliable Theatre Tavern Other Music Paresis Hall The Ritz The Saint SideWalk Cafe Sin-é St. Mark's Bookshop St. Mark's Playhouse Ukiyo Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Other buildings
51 Astor Place 339 Lafayette Street 640 Broadway 770 Broadway Astor Place Tower Bayard–Condict Building Bracetti Plaza Christodora House Colonnade Row Firehouse, Engine Company 33 and Ladder Company 9 First Houses Hamilton Fish House Hamilton-Holly House Isaac T. Hopper House Metropolitan Savings Bank Building Riis Houses Robbins & Appleton Building Schermerhorn Building Silk Building Tompkins Square Lodging House for Boys and Industrial School Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital Van Tassell and Kearney Horse Auction Mart Village View

Other buildings

Transportation

Subway stations	First Avenue Second Avenue Third Avenue Astor Place Broadway–Lafayette Street/Bleecker Street Eighth Street–New York University
Streets	First Avenue Second Avenue Third Avenue 4th Street 6th Street (Curry Row) 8th Street and St. Mark's Place 14th Street Astor Place Avenue A Avenue B Avenue C Avenue D Bleecker Street Bond Street Bowery Broadway Cooper Square Great Jones Street Houston Street Lafayette Street Taras Shevchenko Place

Regions
Alphabet City Book Row East 10th Street Historic District East Village/Lower East Side Historic District Little Germany St. Mark's Historic District Yiddish Theatre District